FIRST AID – CPR – O2 PROVIDER

STRESS & RESCUE

Minimum Age:

15

Prerequisites for the course:

First Aid

Number of theory sessions:

2

Number of pool sessions:

2

Number of Open Water Dives:

3

Maximum Depth for Training:

30 mètres

Length of the Training:

2 jours

The first aid course is compulsory, if you want to do the stress and rescue course, and has to be renewed every 2 years to stay active. During this course you will learn how to assess an accident, and to help people to stay alive. You will learn how to do an illness assessment, CardioPulmonary Resuscitation and also how to provide oxygen to a victim, which is the most common first aid in case of diving related accident.

During the Stress & Rescue course, you will learn how to deal with your own stress but also to recognize it in other people, to help them to prevent it, but also to avoid accident and panic at the different step of the dive. You will learn how to contact emergency facilities, organize an emergency plan, choose the best search pattern to find a missing diver, organize a rescue team, assist conscious and unconscious diver at the surface but also underwater. You will learn more about potential harmful marine life, and how to identify and treat most of the diving related injury.

The stress and rescue course if often seen as the most important course in a diver career. You will learn a lot about yourself, bring your skill to an other level, and just become a much more confident diver.